New Zealand's access to funded medicines 'well behind the rest of the world'

12 August 2019 - New Zealand has the worst access to funded modern medicines of 20 OECD countries, a report ...

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Comparing PHARMAC's outcomes with those of Australia

7 February 2019 - New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ahern's claim that is unfair to compare PHARMAC's outcomes with those ...

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Jacinda Ardern: not fair to compare PHARMAC with Australia's system

5 February 2019 - Jacinda Ardern told The AM Show New Zealand's drug buying agency has "been pointed to as being ...

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Outdated public funding model failing New Zealand patients

9 October 2018 - Publicly funded modern medicines are out of reach for many patients in New Zealand according to ...

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Mind the gap - an analysis of cancer medicines in New Zealand and Australia

2 February 2017 - When it comes making a difference in people’s lives, it’s not about how many medicines you ...

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Subsidised access to new melanoma drugs: in need of further innovation?

19 August 2016 - New Zealand is now the melanoma capital of the world but is behind the rest of ...

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New Zealand’s medicines landscape

8 April 2016 - Medicines New Zealand believes New Zealanders deserve better access to medicines when they need them. ...

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Pharmac hits back at claims Australia has better access to high-cost cancer drugs

3 November 2015 - Pharmac has rebuffed claims New Zealanders have less access to cutting-edge cancer treatments, commissioning research they say ...

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